When I was in the Navy (many, many, and I mean MANY, moons ago...) I was stationed on the USS Constellation (now scrap...ugh...) and during a couple of deployments in the Indian Ocean we would get a couple of flybys by Russian Bears.

I remember standing on the Flight Desk and just looking at these MASSIVE planes lumbering by the aircraft carrier. They were so big they shook the boat!

Then, I was told a Russian Badger flew by (I was...alas...on the can at the time) and people were just going NUTS over that one.

This is common on deployment. I know for a fact when I was in (since I worked in Medical and worked with a lot of pilots) we did the same damn thing to some of their ships.